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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime decline, license plate readers, ICE shootings

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Solving more shootings, fatal ICE shootings, making public safety work, rape kits, crime decline, hate crimes, murder rate, unsolved murders, license plate readers, using technology to improve crime analysis, AZ Supreme Court favors police transparency, police radio encryption, police misconduct report, felony murder laws, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Philly Detectives Are Solving More Shootings. Here’s Why.  (The Trace) Fatal ICE shootings spur a halt in vehicle stops and thousands hit by diarrhea bug: Morning Rundown  (NBC News) see also:  Fatal ICE shootings: Why aren't agents wearing body cams?  (USA Today) What Works in American Policing Part 7—Conclusion: No Single Strategy Makes Public Safety Work (R Street) Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States  (American Economic Association) CRIME RATE Her rape kit had a DNA match. In San Francisco, that’s not enough. SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national ra...

Hip Hop Talents Silenced By Gun Violence

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In the world of hip hop music references to criminal activity such as robbery, drug dealing and even murder are commonplace. Unfortunately in some of these cases art imitates life and the very activities occasionally referenced in the music of certain artists are reflected in real life violence. Tupac Shakur, already the victim of one shooting, was gunned down in Las Vegas on September the 7th 1996. The murder has never been solved. Christopher Wallace better known to the world as the Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in what perhaps was a retaliation for the murder of Shakur on March the 9th 1997 in Los Angeles. This murder has also remained unsolved to this day. In a separate, but no less tragic incident; the closest friend of famed Detroit rapper Eminem, DeShaun Dupree Holton (alias Proof) was gunned down in Detroit on April the 11th 2006. The shooting resulted from an argument in a club on Detroits 8 Mile stretch. Below is a map of the shootings: A detailed crime listing is availabl...